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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (3)

  • Selenocephalus pylaon Linnavuori, 1969a: 1167.

    Holotype; male; edc2ef06-d92c-465c-8d59-87e5309b1a2c; deposited at: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN); Republic of Congo: Dimonika, Mayumbe, I.1964, Coll. A. Villiers, A. Descarpentries

  • Kumba pylaon (Linnavuori, 1969) in Linnavuori & Al-Ne'amy, 1983a: 85.
  • Bumka pylaon (Linnavuori, 1969) in McKamey, 2003b: 450.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Linnavuori, R.E. & Al-Ne'amy, K.T. (1983a) Revision of the African Cicadellidae (subfamily Selenocephalinae) (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha). Acta Zoologica Fennica, 168, 1–105.
  • Linnavuori, R.E. (1969a) Contribution à la faune du Congo (Brazzaville). Mission A. Villiers et A. Descarpentries XCIII. Hemipteres Hylicidae et Cicadellidae. Bulletin de l'Institut Francaise d'Afrique Noire. Série A: Sciences Naturelles, 31(4), 1129–1185.
  • Lozada, P.W. & Bourgoin, T. (2000) Especímenes tipo de Cicadellidae en la coleccíon del Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (Hemiptera). Revue Française d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Série), 22(1), 17–36. [in Spanish; Castilian]
  • McKamey, S.H. (2003b) Some new generic names in the Cicadellidae (Hemiptera: Deltocephalinae, Selenocephalinae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 105(2), 447–451.
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

after Pylaon, in Greek mythology, son of Neleus and Chloris, killed by Heracles

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1023